Most of the 'citations' are left overs from the anti-porn congressional hearings in the 80s and the cottage industry that built up around them. I rarely hear professionals actually try to assert this argument today.
Or at minimal it would be really nice if there were some restrictions on advertising to captive audiences. TVs in the gas pumps are difficult to avoid but possible... but TVs on trains are getting really difficult to ignore.
Heh, here is where we might be able to pull in one of the disability acts or something. Neurotypicals just get frustrated, but people with odder wiring can really suffer from such systems.
As an embedded developer, I sympathize with why one would find the AGPL evil... though at the risk of going down a 'they came for the X, but I was not an X' line. Back end developers did not seem to understand why embedded developers were uncomfortable with GPLv3, which was written in such a way as to not anger the more network and infrastructure oriented projects but really put the screws on embedded ones.
Niche is a tricky description since BerkeleyDB tends to lurk in the underbelly of projects. MySQL you can see running, but Berkeley you generally do not know if a project is using it unless you look through the library linkage and cat a bunch of data files.
To be fair, I think NASA discovered that things are harder and more expensive then the optimism of the 60s thought they would be. It was always assumed that some magical innovation would be right around the corner that would bring down the costs and allow for massive expansions, but nothing ever materialized. Just incremental improvements.
Because small plucky 'enterprise' makes for better political theater then stogy old boring companies.
The current american dream is short bursts of intense work by 'outsiders' followed by riches, so companies that exemplify that imagery get a lot of political attention. The older style of 'lots of planned hard work over long periods followed by reasonable long term profits' just isn't sexy. So there is a push to get NASA away from companies that have long consistant but boring track records (and, importantly, have learned from mistakes) and instead working with companies that sound really cool and have a couple of flights under their belt but have not made many mistakes yet and thus still play fast and loose.
They used BU's IP in the design of their IP. Generally if you integrate patented material into a larger work without permission that is infringement. The manufacturing of that design is another issue, but generally yes, liability does fall back on the company that produced the design and specs, not the one tasked with building them.
No, it would be like sueing Ford even if their plant is out of the country. They are sueing the people who created the designs that are being manufactured.
Apple and Amazon both build designs, and then have those designs manufactured elsewhere. BU is suing over the use of their patent in designs, in other words use of IP in their IP.
As for what BU manufactures, they do research, research private entities then use to design marketable products.
Well, right now that money gets sent right back to the university who uses it to fund more research. Government grants do not go nearly as far as people think.
I disagree. A lot of good stuff comes out of people who are highly specialized. In many problems, esp obscure ones, you reach a limit for how innovative people with eclectic backgrounds can be and really need to throw people with deep specialized understanding into the mix.
There is that possibility too. Never underestimate the value of having a business relationship already in place with an alternative to your biggest vendor.
Well, there is more to taking a major run then just the checks clearing. Generally it comes with a commitment which locks down plants and resources, sometimes for years, which might interfere with their roadmap. They probably have some gantt chart from hell they have to make every new business deal fit into and when things do not fit they have to put the capital up front to increase (or duplicate) capacity somewhere.
The part that can really hurt US developers is the middle ground. While we have all heard (and many of us cleaned up after) disaster stories of bargin bin outsource companies, there really are quite a few out there that are both cheap and have skilled developers. For better or worse, the US has a high cost of living and thus you can pay off shore people less while still having robust competition between those firms.
The downside of making it easy to turn things off is that people do, and then something goes wrong, and then they complain the recovery did not work, and you point out it was disabled, and they claim they never disabled it, and then they tell all their friends how much your company has screwed them with your buggy device that mysteriously switched off the useful feature they never heard of but got pissed about not being there.
I agree it should be an option, but I can sympathize with companies not wanting to deal with that expletive. People who do stupid things rarely blame themselves, but they are happy to blame others loudly in public where it can hurt your brand.
souls and chakras asside, hormones produced in the non-head body do have a significant impact on personality, and it could be argued that personality is shaped by one's condition in life, which the body is a pretty significant element of.
If we are going to go with bad designes, we might as well start with the knees.... there is an area where human designers have done better then nature.
I am not so sure about that. We have a large number of talented independent cryptographers today, but we had quite a few in the 70s too. Generally the NSA hires pretty bright people and gives pretty specialized training, so it is plausible that there is still a non-trivial gap.
small (but oversized) IC engines are inefficient, but per mass gasoline is a VERY efficient form of energy storage, much greater then current batteries.
Most of the places that use it are closed source, it is not really designed to appeal to the OSS community. However big companies that need to appease non-technical people (like the DoD, major ISPs, utilities) will often use it. It is pretty low profile because they mostly talk with big players directly. Not really a small developer/end user product.
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Most of the 'citations' are left overs from the anti-porn congressional hearings in the 80s and the cottage industry that built up around them. I rarely hear professionals actually try to assert this argument today.
Or at minimal it would be really nice if there were some restrictions on advertising to captive audiences. TVs in the gas pumps are difficult to avoid but possible... but TVs on trains are getting really difficult to ignore.
Heh, here is where we might be able to pull in one of the disability acts or something. Neurotypicals just get frustrated, but people with odder wiring can really suffer from such systems.
I do not think BDB has changed much in the last two decades.... it is a pretty conservative project.
As an embedded developer, I sympathize with why one would find the AGPL evil... though at the risk of going down a 'they came for the X, but I was not an X' line. Back end developers did not seem to understand why embedded developers were uncomfortable with GPLv3, which was written in such a way as to not anger the more network and infrastructure oriented projects but really put the screws on embedded ones.
Niche is a tricky description since BerkeleyDB tends to lurk in the underbelly of projects. MySQL you can see running, but Berkeley you generally do not know if a project is using it unless you look through the library linkage and cat a bunch of data files.
To be fair, I think NASA discovered that things are harder and more expensive then the optimism of the 60s thought they would be. It was always assumed that some magical innovation would be right around the corner that would bring down the costs and allow for massive expansions, but nothing ever materialized. Just incremental improvements.
Because small plucky 'enterprise' makes for better political theater then stogy old boring companies.
The current american dream is short bursts of intense work by 'outsiders' followed by riches, so companies that exemplify that imagery get a lot of political attention. The older style of 'lots of planned hard work over long periods followed by reasonable long term profits' just isn't sexy. So there is a push to get NASA away from companies that have long consistant but boring track records (and, importantly, have learned from mistakes) and instead working with companies that sound really cool and have a couple of flights under their belt but have not made many mistakes yet and thus still play fast and loose.
They used BU's IP in the design of their IP. Generally if you integrate patented material into a larger work without permission that is infringement. The manufacturing of that design is another issue, but generally yes, liability does fall back on the company that produced the design and specs, not the one tasked with building them.
No, it would be like sueing Ford even if their plant is out of the country. They are sueing the people who created the designs that are being manufactured.
Apple and Amazon both build designs, and then have those designs manufactured elsewhere. BU is suing over the use of their patent in designs, in other words use of IP in their IP.
As for what BU manufactures, they do research, research private entities then use to design marketable products.
Well, right now that money gets sent right back to the university who uses it to fund more research. Government grants do not go nearly as far as people think.
I disagree. A lot of good stuff comes out of people who are highly specialized. In many problems, esp obscure ones, you reach a limit for how innovative people with eclectic backgrounds can be and really need to throw people with deep specialized understanding into the mix.
There is that possibility too. Never underestimate the value of having a business relationship already in place with an alternative to your biggest vendor.
Well, there is more to taking a major run then just the checks clearing. Generally it comes with a commitment which locks down plants and resources, sometimes for years, which might interfere with their roadmap. They probably have some gantt chart from hell they have to make every new business deal fit into and when things do not fit they have to put the capital up front to increase (or duplicate) capacity somewhere.
The part that can really hurt US developers is the middle ground. While we have all heard (and many of us cleaned up after) disaster stories of bargin bin outsource companies, there really are quite a few out there that are both cheap and have skilled developers. For better or worse, the US has a high cost of living and thus you can pay off shore people less while still having robust competition between those firms.
We also had much shorter lifespans.
I also know people with artificial knees who have had their lives turned around by them. Modern implants have gotten pretty good.
The downside of making it easy to turn things off is that people do, and then something goes wrong, and then they complain the recovery did not work, and you point out it was disabled, and they claim they never disabled it, and then they tell all their friends how much your company has screwed them with your buggy device that mysteriously switched off the useful feature they never heard of but got pissed about not being there.
I agree it should be an option, but I can sympathize with companies not wanting to deal with that expletive. People who do stupid things rarely blame themselves, but they are happy to blame others loudly in public where it can hurt your brand.
souls and chakras asside, hormones produced in the non-head body do have a significant impact on personality, and it could be argued that personality is shaped by one's condition in life, which the body is a pretty significant element of.
If we are going to go with bad designes, we might as well start with the knees.... there is an area where human designers have done better then nature.
I am not so sure about that. We have a large number of talented independent cryptographers today, but we had quite a few in the 70s too. Generally the NSA hires pretty bright people and gives pretty specialized training, so it is plausible that there is still a non-trivial gap.
Taking quantum tunneling into account for reactions? pChem just became an even bigger headache then it already was....
small (but oversized) IC engines are inefficient, but per mass gasoline is a VERY efficient form of energy storage, much greater then current batteries.
Most of the places that use it are closed source, it is not really designed to appeal to the OSS community. However big companies that need to appease non-technical people (like the DoD, major ISPs, utilities) will often use it. It is pretty low profile because they mostly talk with big players directly. Not really a small developer/end user product.
If no project you are working on is using it then it does not impact you directly, though projects you depend on might be.